Race Day Live (New York City, NY) – According to a new lawsuit, a New Yorker despises the TikTok-famous vintage picture booth that has been set up next door to her Lower East Side house.
Zoë Lazerson and Brandon Minton, proprietors of the Old Friend Photobooth, claim their neighbor Maggie Trakas has “declared war” on them after they signed a lease for their booth next to her building.
Since its inception in December, the one-sided guerilla battle has allegedly seen Trakas, an artist and jewelry maker, tossing a bucket of urine from her second-story Allen Street window onto a booth owner and queueing customers — “narcissistic r—-ds,” the suit claims — and using her artist tools to paint feces along the booth’s fence and planters.
According to the lawsuit, she also superglued locks and threatened both verbally and physically.
“This is war!” Trakas said just one day after the booth moved to its new location at 145 Allen St. on Dec. 9, due to its growing popularity, according to the lawsuit.
The legal complaint describes Trakas’ behavior as “deranged and health-hazardous,” and claims that she will stop at nothing to undermine the operation of the Old Friend Photobooth.
But Trakas told The Post that it’s all a plan to get money before the TikTok fad, which she claims draws hundreds of boisterous 20-somethings in a steady line around the block, is outlawed this Sunday.
On Jan. 5, she “leaned out of her second-floor window and poured a bucket of urine directly onto Minton’s head, causing the urine to splash onto queuing customers,” according to the lawsuit, adding that responding police officers and paramedics confirmed the source was piss.
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